Chengyuan Ma
Quantitative Research Engineer
Cambridge, England, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChengyuan Ma is a quantitative research engineer and MIT MEng candidate with nine years of hands-on software and robotics experience, now working at Citadel. He blends systems-level GPU and CUDA optimization (1000x speedups) with applied research in verifiable computation and WebGPU-based zero-knowledge proof tooling, contributing to a ZPrize top-5 result. A former competitive programmer and robot-team leader who reached national finals and World Finals respectively, he also published IROS work on avatar-robot alignment and built mixed-reality rehab applications with HoloLens. Comfortable across low-level performance engineering, RL environments, and developer-facing compilers, Chengyuan’s portfolio and GitHub reflect a long-standing drive to turn research prototypes into practical, portable systems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Shanghai Foreign Language School Affiliated to SISU
Github Skills (81)
socket8
ack8
metafont8
rtc8
dvi8
proxy7
proxy-protocol7
vpn7
udp7
xetex7
latex7
xposed7
android7
cilk7
postscript7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ma-chengyuan/ekho
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:193 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
gilbertmike/web-scheme
Apr 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:47 commits, 29 pushes, 1 comment in 24 days
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